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Arctic animals such as polar bears rely on sea ice. Although this year’s annual minimum extent was relatively high, ice cover is shrinking as global temperatures rise.

Swedish Photographer Christian Aslund visited Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, to document the retreat of glaciers. He found that they look very different from archival images taken up to a century ...

The Arctic World: its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena. ... The work is something more than a mere picture-book, though its pictures are certainly a striking attraction.

To date the census has recorded 7,500 animal species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic. Scientists estimate some 230,000-250,000 species live in the world’s oceans. CoML has relied ...

Tape and his colleagues assessed aerial photos from the early 1950s and found no signs of beaver presence in Alaska's Arctic tundra. The first signs of beavers appeared in 1980 imagery.

(See more pictures of Arctic animals.) To find the white bears on the icy landscape, Stapleton and colleagues restricted their scope to darker islands where bears often get stranded in the late ...

California-based photography Patty Waymire traveled to one of Alaska's Arctic islands to snap images of polar bears amid the snow and ice, but found that global warming has left the island warm ...

Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and sometimes losing that fight. The bird flu infected and killed a polar bear and walruses in the Arctic for the first time.

The Arctic is warming faster than any region on Earth. See how climate change is dramatically transforming this polar landscape and the animals and plants that depend on it. See photos about ...

But the pictures in her “The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape” document a formerly stable realm that’s inexorably liquefying.